Water

Water
Author: Melissa Stewart
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1426314744

Provides information about the Earth's water, including rivers, lakes, oceans, the water cycle, climate, water pollution, and conservation.

Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3

Teaching New Literacies in Grades K-3
Author: Barbara Moss
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1606234994

Even the youngest readers and writers in today’s classrooms can benefit enormously from engagement with a wide range of traditional and nontraditional texts. This teacher-friendly handbook is packed with creative strategies for introducing K–3 students to fiction, poetry, and plays; informational texts; graphic novels; digital storytelling; Web-based and multimodal texts; hip-hop; advertisements; math problems; and many other types of texts. Prominent authorities explain the research base underlying the book’s 23 complete lessons and provide practical activities and assessments for promoting decoding, fluency, comprehension, and other key literacy skills. Snapshots of diverse classrooms bring the material to life; helpful reproducibles are included.

Applying Differentiation Strategies: Grades 3-5

Applying Differentiation Strategies: Grades 3-5
Author: Wendy Conklin
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-12-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425891888

Give all learners in Grades 3-5 the opportunity for successful learning! This newly updated resource will teach you how to differentiate your lessons through content, process, and product in order to effectively accommodate all learning levels and styles of learning. Globally-focused social studies sample lessons and additional templates for use in lesson planning have been included in this latest edition. A variety of instructional strategies are featured including: Choices, Inquiry-Based Learning, Multiple Intelligences, Questioning, Self-Paced Strategies, and Tiered Assignments. All of the.

Lessons and Units for Closer Reading, Grades 3-6

Lessons and Units for Closer Reading, Grades 3-6
Author: Nancy Boyles
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483389863

Ready-to-go units to ramp up close reading Want a yearlong close reading curriculum to insert in your literacy block? You’ve got it. Nancy Boyles’ Lessons & Units for Closer Reading features 32 lessons, based on readily available complex picture books and organized by eight learning pathways for approaching literature and information. Get started right away, with the help of: Short nonfiction articles to kick off each unit Assessment tasks, rubrics, planning templates, and more Links to 20+ instructional video segments Page-by-page text-dependent questions for every book With Closer Reading, Nancy expertly delivered answers to the why and how of close reading. Now, with this phenomenal sequel, you’re treated to her playbook.

Reading Strategies for Science

Reading Strategies for Science
Author: Stephanie Macceca
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425890725

Motivate readers to become budding scientists with a variety of strategies to help them read and better understand science content. This resource brings it all together in one easy-to-use format featuring an overview of reading comprehension skills, practical and detailed strategies to improve these skills, and activities with classroom examples by grade ranges. Specific suggestions are included with every strategy to help differentiate instruction for various levels of readers and learning styles. Includes a Teacher Resource CD of activity reproducibles and graphic organizers. This resource is correlated to the Common Core State Standards and is aligned to the interdisciplinary themes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 208 pages + CD

Science Readers: A Closer Look: Basics of Matter Kit

Science Readers: A Closer Look: Basics of Matter Kit
Author:
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2010-11-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781433314131

Help elementary students discover the solids, liquids, and gases that make up the world around them. Science Readers: A Closer Look: Basics of Matter: Complete Kit includes: Books (6 titles, 6 copies each, 32 pages per book); data analysis activities; audio recordings; digital resources; and a Teacher's Guide.

The Everything Guide to Informational Texts, K-2

The Everything Guide to Informational Texts, K-2
Author: Kathy H. Barclay
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2014-02-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452283079

Your resource for best texts and best practices! Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have written the book that teachers like you have been pleading for—a resource that delivers the “what I need to know ” to engage kids in a significant amount of informational text reading experiences. No filler, no lofty ideals about college and career readiness, but instead, the information on how to find lesson-worthy texts and create developmentally appropriate instructional plans that truly help young readers comprehend grade-level texts. What you’ll love most: The how-to’s on selecting informational texts High-impact comprehension strategies Model text lessons and lesson plan templates An annotated list of 449 informational texts

Standards-Based Science Investigations, Grade 3

Standards-Based Science Investigations, Grade 3
Author: Robert W. Smith
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2008-08-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1420689630

Through content area reading, hands-on experiences, and inquiry investigations, young scientists learn the essential concepts of science. The language is clear, simple, and scientifically correct. The imaginative and effective lessons cover life, earth, and physical sciences. Helpful extras include science inquiry worksheets, an inquiry assessment rubric, and alignment to standards.